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Another view of the 8 NICs

DFI Motherboard with an Intel PIII 533 128 Megs SDRAM 8.5 Gig Seagate Hard drive 16 Meg Matrox AGP video 3Com 3C905TX NIC Windows 98SE

Machine 2

Abit motherboard with an AMD Athlon 600 128 Megs SDRAM 20 GIG Maxtor Diamond Max Hard drive 8 Meg i740 video card Windows NT 4.0 Varying NIC configuration

For testing I used a Windows 98 computer (machine 1) running a standard 3COM 3C905TX 10/100 NIC, and transferred a folder (peer to peer with a CAT 5 crossover cable) of 300MEG containing multiple directories and file structures to another computer (machine 2) running Windows NT 4.0 sp6a with network monitor and performance monitor to capture all network frames during a timed file transfer. All cards in the test were running in full-duplex mode at 100 Mbit/s.

On with the NICs!